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College of Arts & Sciences
FILM STUDIES
Director: Jerry DeSchepper
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FILM STUDIES COURSES
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ENG300A Literature into Film: Drama
Students selecting this course should be juniors or seniors, have a
basic familiarity with the methods of literary analysis, and competent
expository writing skills. In this course students will do comparative
analysis of literature in two different media: print and film. Students
will read various types of dramatic literature critically, such as tragedy,
comedy, problem play, musical, theater of the absurd, etc.and analyze their
cinematic adaptations. For example, students might read and study the film
adaptations of: Shakespeare’Äôs Macbeth or Romeo & Juliet; True West
or Fool for Love, by Sam Shepard; Arthur Miller’Äôs Crucible or Death of
a Salesman; and House of Games or American Buffalo by David Mamet. Emphasis
will be placed upon students acquiring the specialized vocabulary and conceptual
background necessary for cinematic analysis. For more information contact
Don Kunz: dkunz@uri.edu or Jerry DeSchepper:
shep@etal.uri.edu
ENG300B Literature into Film: Narrative
Students selecting this course should be juniors or seniors, have a
basic familiarity with the methods of literary analysis, and competent
expository writing skills. In this course students will do comparative
analysis of literature in two different media -- print and film. Students
will read various types of narrative literature critically, such as the
novel and short story and analyze their cinematic adaptations. For example,
students might read and study the film adaptations of: The Great Gatsby,
by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Virginia Woolf’Äôs Mrs. Dalloway; Hound of the Baskervilles,
by Arthur Conan Doyle; Laura Esquivel’Äôs Like Water for Chocolate; or The
Tell-tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe. Emphasis will be placed upon students
acquiring the specialized vocabulary and conceptual background necessary
for cinematic analysis. For more information contact Don Kunz: dkunz@uri.edu
or Jerry DeSchepper:
shep@etal.uri.edu
ENG302 Topics in Film Theory & Criticism
Emphasis on semiotics, auteur theory, psychoanalysis, genre studies,
feminist theory, materialist critique, or cultural studies, with focus
on range of popular, experimental, and documentary film traditions. For
more information contact the instructor: John Leo johnleo@uri.edu or Ryan Trimm: trimmrs@uri.edu
ENG303 Cinematic Auteurs
Literary study of one or more major directors with a substantial body
or work exhibiting recurrent themes and distinctive style. Recent course
offerings have featured such auteur directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Oliver
Stone, Stanley Kubrick and the Coen Brothers. For more information contact
Don Kunz: dkunz@uri.edu or Jerry DeSchepper: shep@etal.uri.edu
ENG304 Film Genres
Literary study of the particular conventions and evolution of popular
film genres, such as film noir, science fiction, the war film and the western.
. For more information contact the instructor: Don Kunz: dkunz@uri.edu or Jerry DeSchepper: shep@etal.uri.edu
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| Eng300 (Literature into Film: Narrative) TR11-12:15 Professor Don
Kunz
Students selecting this course should be juniors or seniors,
have a basic familiarity with literary analysis, and competent expository
writing skills.
In this course students will do comparative analysis of literature
in two different media -- print and film. Students will read various types
of fiction (like the Western, the domestic melodrama, magical realism,
etc.) critically and, having mastered the specialized vocabulary required
for reading narrative film, will apply it to the analysis of their cinematic
adaptations.
Students will study a basic film text, a variety of printed narratives,
and the films based upon them. Testing will be by expository/argumentative
essay over the adaptation of a particular narrative to film. Narratives
studied will include some of the following: Dances with Wolves, Like Water
for Chocolate, The Sweet Hereafter, "Killings."
Eng 358 (Literature and Business) TR 2-3:45 Professor Don Kunz
This course will explore various aspects of business as fictionalized
in American feature-length films: blue collar factory work and unionization,
secretarial support staff, marketing and sales teams, management practices,
and corporate structures. Emphasis will be on films of the last forty years
in which some important issue (like sexual harassment, insider trading,
product misrepresentation, violation of safety standards, "creative" accounting,
pension fraud, whistle blowing) provides the basis for dramatic conflicts
which are debated, complicated, intensified, and resolved. Films will include
some of the following: Norma Rae, Blue Collar, Other People’Äôs Money; Putney
Swope, Glen Garry Glen Ross; Nine to Five, Working girl; Save the Tiger,
The Hudsucker Proxy, Wall Street, Network; The China Syndrome, Silkwood,
The Insider, Erin Brockovich.
Junior or senior standing is a prerequisite, and students seeking
enrollment should have strong expository/argumentative writing skills.
Preference is given to students majoring in business. All films will be
screened in class, requiring one extra hour of class time per week; note
unconventional stop time at 3:45 for TR 2pm class. Discussions will center
on both business issues and the aesthetics of their representation.
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